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Overview❖ Basics
❖ Apple TV Introduction
❖ Remote
❖ Focus Engine
❖ What You Will Need To Make An App
❖ Beyond
❖ App Creation Demo (Quiz App)
❖ See The Apple TV In Action
❖ Apple TV ASO
Basics
❖ “The new Apple TV redefines the living room experience, allowing you to deliver extraordinary, immersive content on the big screen like never before.”
Apple TV Introduction
❖ Release Date? Last Friday
❖ Cost? 32GB is $149 & 64GB is $199
❖ Why Do We Care? New App Store!
The Remote❖ Touch Surface
❖ Recognizes 5 Taps, Click, 4 Swipes, Gyroscope
❖ Buttons
❖ Menu Button = Home/Menu
❖ Home Button = Home
❖ Siri Button
❖ Volume
❖ Play/Pause Button
What You Will Need❖ Hardware
❖ 64-bit Mac
❖ 1080 TV (recommended)
❖ Apple TV with USB-C & HDMI cables (recommended…)
❖ Software
❖ Latest Version of Xcode
❖ Photoshop (recommended)
Languages
❖ iOS Languages (Objective-C or Swift)
❖ Apple TV Markup Language (TVML/Javascript)
❖ Unity 3D coming soon…
Image Resources
❖ Large 3 Layer App Icon (1280px by 768px)
❖ Small 3 Layer App Icon (400px by 240px)
❖ Top Shelf (1920px by 720px)
❖ 5 App Screenshots (1920px by 1080px)❖ https://developer.apple.com/tvos/human-interface-guidelines/
Gotchas❖ Limited Internal Storage
❖ 200 MB Max App Size
❖ Must use Siri Remote
❖ No UIWebViews
❖ No iAd
❖ Top Shelf Image Can’t Contain Alpha Channel
❖ Menu Button Should Exit App (Handled Automatically)
❖ With IAP Requests Must Be Retained
❖ Game Center Requires a Parallax Image in Assets Folder
Reception❖ Pros
❖ App Devs Become Console Devs
❖ Easily Updated
❖ Cons
❖ Using The Remote Is Tedious
❖ Limited Discoverability
❖ No Apple TV Seller Apps
❖ Not Enough Users Yet
Making Your First Apple TV App
❖ Quiz App Xcode Project❖ https://github.com/NickCulbertson/Apple-TV-Quiz-Game-Starter-Kit
Thank You!
❖ Nick Culbertson
❖ Find my apps by searching my name on the Apple TV❖ https://github.com/NickCulbertson/Apple-TV-Quiz-Game-Starter-Kit